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Conventional satellite imagery may underestimate forest clearing for subsistence agriculture

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2013

New mountain porcupine discovered in Brazil (photos)

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2013

Sky islands: exploring East Africa’s last frontier

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2013

Animal Earth: exploring the hidden biodiversity of our planet

Owen Reynolds 3 Dec 2013

Plantations used as cover for destruction of old-growth forests in Myanmar

Jeremy Hance 2 Dec 2013

Palm oil company Bumitama under fire for clearing rainforest, endangering orangutans

Diana Parker 2 Dec 2013

28 percent of potential bonobo habitat remains suitable

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2013

Controversial palm oil project approved in Cameroon rainforest

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2013

Elusive giraffe-relative – the okapi – now listed as Endangered

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2013

Microhabitats could buffer some rainforest animals against climate change

Jeremy Hance 25 Nov 2013

Greenpeace photos expose palm oil giant’s deforestation in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Nov 2013

REDD+ program to cut deforestation gets final approval in Warsaw

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Nov 2013

Satellites reveal browning mountain forests

Sandhya Sekar 22 Nov 2013

Asia’s most precious wood is soaked in blood

Michael Spencer 21 Nov 2013

Canopy crusade: world’s highest network of camera traps keeps an eye on animals impacted by gas project

Claire Salisbury 21 Nov 2013

The quicksilver demon: rogue gold-mining is the world’s largest source of mercury pollution

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 20 Nov 2013

Why is Amazon deforestation climbing?

Daniel Nepstad 17 Nov 2013

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon jumps 28% in 2013

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2013

Deforestation accelerates in Indonesia, finds Google forest map

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

Zero net deforestation is the wrong target, warn experts

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

Powered by Google, high resolution forest map reveals massive deforestation worldwide

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

Scientists identify 137 protected areas most important for preserving biodiversity

Jeremy Hance 14 Nov 2013

REDD+ carbon market stabilizes, but risk of supply glut looms

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2013

Flawed from inception? Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative threatened indigenous groups with simple mapping errors

Nsikan Akpan 13 Nov 2013

3.5 million ha of Indonesian and Malaysian forest converted for palm oil in 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2013

Asia’s ‘unicorn’ photographed in Vietnam

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2013

Murum dam blockaders may be suffering human rights violations warns NGOs

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2013

Amazon’s vast rainforest dominated by few tree species

Patricia Waldron 12 Nov 2013

Exclusive: Stunning aerial photos reveal Ecuador building roads deeper into richest rainforest on Earth (Yasuní National Park)

Matt Finer 12 Nov 2013

HBSC financing deforestation for palm oil in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Nov 2013

Redeeming REDD: a conversation with Michael Brown

Nabiha Megateli-das 11 Nov 2013

Amazon deforestation could cause droughts in California

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Nov 2013

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